Spring Bean Scopes

Spring Bean Scopes

• Singleton - (default) Only one instance of the bean is
created in the IoC container.
• Prototype - A new instance is created each time the bean
is requested.
• Request - A single instance per http request. Only valid in
the context of a web-aware Spring ApplicationContext.
• Session - A single instance per http session. Only valid in
the context of a web-aware Spring ApplicationContext.
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• Global-session - A single instance per global session.
Typically Only used in a Portlet context. Only valid in the
context of a web-aware Spring ApplicationContext.
• Application - bean is scoped to the lifecycle of a
ServletContext. Only valid in the context of a web aware.
• Websocket - Scopes a single bean definition to the
lifecycle of a WebSocket. Only valid in the context of a
web-aware Spring ApplicationContext.
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• Custom Scope - Spring Scopes are extensible,
and you can define your own scope by
implementing Spring’s ‘Scope” interface.
• See Spring’s Java docs for details.
• You cannot override the built in Singleton and
Prototype Scopes
Singleton Scope
Prototype Scope
 Declaring Bean Scope

• No declaration needed for singleton scope.

• In Java configuration use @Scope annotation
• In XML configuration scope is an XML attribute
of the ‘bean’ tag